If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
KHALIL GIBRANGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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